4. Identity Poem What is it like to be you? The poem builds in rhythm because each sentence starts with the contraction "It's... . For example slam poet Patricia Smith "What It's Like to be a Black Girl (for those of you who aren't).” "it's being 9 years old and feeling like you're not finished, like your edges are wild, ... ."
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7. Poems by Process of Obliteration here in a word, into a position so little impracticable schemes after living free days on the Assabeth and Indian relics, after becoming imbued — it was time, as a change of diet, In some measure, naturally well balanced, organization, with men of altogether different qualities, i cared not, they were apart from me. developed in each and sky, passed away out of my mind. Suspended, Sad, Conscious that the past Lived too long; make me permanently into any shape considered other than a transitory life.
9. Websites used for this program Portrait Poems http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/portrait.html Teen Space Poetry Wiki http://www4.ipl.org:8080/index.php/WordPlay#WordPlay_Experiments